Category: Garden

Bye bye path

On By CarynIn Garden

I haven’t been redirecting the pumpkin vines away from my path because it has been too hot outside. Now they have engulfed it.

Photo description: pumpkin vines covering a stone step path

I have yet to see a pumpkin produced from the vines. Maybe they’ll find enough sunlight on their journey.

More… vegetables?

On By CarynIn Garden

Despite my effort to continue to water the cucumber plants, the Texas heat turned the vines crispy. I picked off the small remaining cucumbers and also broke open the ear of … corn? that formed on the volunteer plant in my pumpkin patch.

Photo description: last cucumber harvest with bonus corn-like vegetable

It all went to the chickens. I do have quite a large basil plant that I will harvest before the weather turns cold, and the pumpkin vines are not crispy, but also not producing fruit.

Limping along

On By CarynIn Garden

I was ready to let the cucumber vines go for the summer, they were getting crispy in the intense heat and the cucumbers strangely shaped, and as I collected the watering bags, a large American Bumblebee visited the remaining flowers. Ok. I’ll keep the watering bags coming.

Photo description: American Bumblebee visiting cucumber flowers

It looks like corn?

On By CarynIn Garden
Photo description: volunteer veggie in my garden with a section that looks like corn, but small

I’m going to wait for a while before I harvest the corn-looking protuberance. I did not plant it; the most likely culprit is a squirrel.

Garden IV

On By CarynIn Garden

I never did run a sprinkler or hose out to my raised bed where I am growing cucumbers, which means that when it hasn’t rained (we’ve had a rather wet summer), I’ve been hand carrying water out to the meadow. We just finished a trip where we were gone for 5 days, and rather than trust the forecast, I set up water bags to drip moisture into the soil.

Photo description: wilting cucumbers in a water trough converted into a raised garden bed with a trellis holding two bags of water

The trellis was quite helpful for installing the bags. I set the flow rate low, 5ml an hour, and made sure all the outlets dripped.

Photo description: closeup of the gauge on the drip line, showing the flow rates at the high end of the range, this junction twists in the middle to control flow

It turned out that while we were gone it rained nearly everyday, so the low 5ml flow didn’t really matter. I should have done my math first, at that flow rate the bags should last 10 days. I am hoping that it will help with this week’s heat wave.